Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-14
ALL SORTS OF SILKS.
The Fayorite weaves and CoIors for
General Spring and Summer Wear.

The Favorite Weaves and Colors for
General Spring and Summer Wear.
When one gets peep at the sample
books of silks at leading establish
ment the temptations great to describe
each and every style; but the limits of
time and space are memorable, and so
choice must be made of only a special
few.
Faille Franchise continues to be the
favorite weave for silks; and deserved
ly. for it combines a softness and plia-
bility with a richness of effect, and,
from the special manner OF weaving, a
durability, that are not possessed by
any other style. This weave forms the
foundation for many of the novel and
beautiful effects in the new silks. not.
however to the exclusion of satin, gros
grain, and twilled weave similar to
surah or satin merveilleux.
The popular fancy for stripes and
plaids is prominent in all the novelties
in silks; and plush effects, in both frise
and coupe, abound, sometimes used
separately, sometimes together A dis
tinctive sample of the latter class has
block plaids two inches square. al
ternately of cut and uncut plush,
separated by bayadere stripes of two
or three threads in faille weave, and
perpendicular stripes of the same width
but of a contrasting color of plush.
The combinations of color in this style
are varied; one rs OF beige and a beau
tiful shade of dark blue, the separating
lines of old-gold The colors are dis
posed in perpendicular stripes, so that
the color effect is of stripes, while the
plaid effect is impaired by the weaving
coupe and frise, which occurs al
ternately every two inches, but in the
same line all across the material. This
would be used for panel, front
breadth, or even the entire skirt in COM
bination with either blue or beige silk
or fine camels'-hair cashmere.
Another striking sample has, on a
heliotrope satin ground, two plush
stripes, each five inches wide, formed
of narrow stripes in old-gold, dark red,
bronze-green and vieiUe rose, of differ
ent widths and repeated in different ro-
tation. and woven about three inches
from the selvedges,. Down the middle
of the width, the satin surface is
striped with single threads of chenille
in each of the colors in the plush
stripes, having the frise weave at inter-
walls; and there are bayadere stripes of
satin, repeating the colors of the che
mile. which form plaids. This could be
used in combination with heliotrope,
or with any one of the colors in the
plush, the dark for handsome visiting
costumes, and the light for reception
and carriage use.
Another style has a faille ground in
a dark shade of heliotrope that dis
plays admirably novel effect in beige
colored cut plush, which is in crosswise
and leLgthwise stripes forming plaids,
the plush not solid, but woven diagon-
ally in chenille-like threads. Still an
other design is in three colors and has
uncut plush of two lengths on a surah
ground; and yet another has stripes at
least three inches wide of golden
brown armure, alternating with stripes
of equal width formed of tiny checks of
beige-colored frise on scarlet satin
ground. In fact, the combinations and
variation of the different weaves, in
stripes and plaids of various sizes and
widths, is almost endless.
The new colors include heliotrope in
eight or ten shades; plum, which is
allied to heliotrope but with a tinge of
red; bronze with green shadings; light
browns, and the whole range of wood
tints; beige and its kindred light tints;
and gray, from the palest French gray
to the dark blue-grav known as Rus
sian gray.
MORE Franchise in good qualities is
in demand in black and all fashionable
colors for street wear, to be used in
combination with silk or fine wooden
fabrics. Moire Franchise, it will be
remembered, has the watered effect in
stripes, rather than the all-over ar
rangement familiar in MORE antique,
but the ripples are quite as large as in
the latter. A special novelty, in black,
has stripes of MORE Franchise at least
seven or eight inches wide alternating
with satin stripes of the same width;
there is MORE stripe down the middle
of the width. s Monthly